Rising star Banks: ‘Neon Jungle’ didn’t ask to cover my song’
By Nick Levine
Rising US popstar Banks (pictured) has revealed that she feels “very uncomfortable” about one of her songs being covered by Neon Jungle.
Neon Jungle have recorded a version of Banks’ song Waiting Game – which became a blog hit after it appeared on an EP the LA-based singer released last year (2013) – for their debut album, Welcome to the Jungle, which was released on Monday (July 28).
However, Banks – real name Jillian Banks – has now claimed in a Facebook message that she was “never asked” if Neon Jungle could record her song and was “shocked” to discover that it now appears on Neon Jungle’s album before her own debut LP has been released.
Read Bank’s full Facebook post below:
“People keep asking why I let Neon Jungle put my song “Waiting Game” on their album when my album has yet to come out. The answer is I was never asked. I was as shocked as you to see this song made up of my own heartbeats on their album. A song that was born from my real life, my real heartache, my real fingertips when I was at one of the most confusing times in my life.
How strange it is to see it used on someone else’s album before it even comes out on mine.
It makes me feel very uncomfortable. Like my own thoughts were stolen from me and sold as someone elses. I am a new artist and new to this business and I am told it is legal. But it feels really icky. I guess I can only hope Waiting Game means as much to Neon Jungle as it did to me when I wrote it……. BANKS”
Bank’s own debut album, Goddess, is scheduled for release on September 5 and will feature her original version of Waiting Game. Neon Jungle have yet to respond to her Facebook post.
Listen to Banks’ Waiting Game below, then scroll down to hear Neon Jungle’s take on the song.